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News of a brawl between police and worshippers on Monday over a secret underground tunnel found connected to a historic Brooklyn synagogue was picked up quickly on social media, with posts spreading baseless claims about the passage, many laced with antisemitism. The conflict at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in New York City, which serves as the center of an influential Hasidic Jewish movement, began when a cement truck arrived to seal the tunnel’s opening. Proponents of the tunnel then staged a protest and ripped off the wooden siding of the synagogue.

A rare and historic manuscript of the Chabad Library, which has been held for decades illegally by the Russian government, has been returned to its rightful home at Agudas Chasidei Chabad in Brooklyn, NY, after several months of intense negotiation and interference by a judge.